Nothing Is Wrong With You: The Truth About Perimenopause No One Told Women

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If you’ve been asking yourself “Why do I feel this way?”—this episode is for you. Brain fog. Anxiety. Irritability. Weight gain. Exhaustion. A quiet sense that you don’t recognize yourself anymore. High-achieving women are being told it’s stress, burnout, motherhood, aging, or that they just need to try harder. But for many women in midlife, that explanation is flat-out wrong. In this episode of What the Shift, I sit down with Dana Culp, founder of Thrive Midlife Medicine, to expose the massive blind spot in women’s healthcare—and the cost of ignoring it. We talk about: Why so many women feel “off” long before menopause—and why it’s missed How perimenopause is misdiagnosed as anxiety, burnout, or personal failure The real reason “pushing through” stops working in midlife What the science actually says about hormones and long-term health Why nothing is wrong with you—and what your body is asking for instead This isn’t about fixing women. It’s about telling the truth. Because when women understand what’s happening in their bodies, they stop blaming themselves—and start making powerful, informed choices about what comes next. If this episode lands, share it with the woman who’s Googling her symptoms at 2am and wondering if she’s broken. She’s not. She was never told the whole story. Learn more about Dana and at take the quiz at thrivemidlifemed.com/quiz

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